A New Approach of Functional Dependency in a Neutrosophic Relational Database Model
In order to model the imprecise and uncertain information, different classical relational data model have been studied in literature using vague set theory. However, neutrosophic set, as a generalized vague set, has more powerful ability to process fuzzy information than vague set. In this paper, we have proposed a neutrosophic relational database model and have defined a new kind of neutrosophic functional dependency (called -nfd) based on the -equality of tuples and the similarity measure of neutrosophic sets. Next, we present a set of sound neutrosophic inference rules which are similar to Armstrong’s axioms for the classical case. Finally, partial -nfdand neutrosophic key have been studied with the new notion of -nfdand also tested.